Essentially, a run of the mill action flick

Rating: 6/10 (29 April 2006)

This could have been a sci-fi masterpiece. It starts off great, with a seemingly compelling narrative, interesting characters, and thought provoking ideas but as Michael Bay movies go, it soon degenerates into a run of the mill action film, void of any consequential events or meaning.
This film was marketed wrong from day one - it gave it all away in the trailers, which was a mistake. There was no mystery to it beyond what we saw in the previews and when it's all said and done, all we're left with is a slick looking action flick, as expected from Michael Bay - with chase scene after chase scene, explosion after explosion and while fun to some, it's been done before and it's been overdone by Michael Bay.
I expected better. I'd recommend watching the first act and forgetting the rest but then again if you did that, you wouldn't get to see Scarlett Johansen run in tight suits.